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Thinking of starting this tradition...

Last year I was playing around with the idea of starting a family tradition for Christmas. I never came up with anything I liked. I was browsing DIY Christmas decor on Pinterest and came up with an idea. I was thinking of starting a tradition by making our own ornaments for eachother and exchanging them on Christmas Eve. Do you have any traditions?

Growing up ,we always did they opening of the presents on christmas eve ,It is just cause my mom always worked on christmas day ,so I am keeping up with that .On Christmas day we spend the day ,watching movies and enjoying the day together ,we eat turkey and just have fun .

Christmas morning is for pajamas, at least for DD. Even if we go to a family's house, if it's still Christmas morning, she'll still be in her new comfy pajamas. I don't believe in making them wear frilly dresses and tights on Christmas Morning! Most people think that's weird, but I'll dress them up the day before or later that day.

My kids get to pick out a new ornament each year. I write their name and the year on the back of it and then they put it on the tree.

I get them each a new set of PJs and slippers that match. They put them on for decorating the tree and then I get a photo of them in front of it. I just ordered their PJs today! The new lines came out from Gymboree and they had some cute matching sheep ones :)

We also do elf on the shelf :) He's coming December 1st, this will be our 4th year and my kids can't wait for him to get here.

I'm sharing a childhood friend's family tradition, because I always thought it was really neat.

They had four kids and they would get up early (like 5 or 6) to start opening presents. They opened one present per hour. Then everyone would get an hour to spend with that present. Then they would all come back to the tree and open another present. I remember one Christmas my friend got a new comforter for her bed. She spent her hour taking a nap with her new blanket.

We always stayed in our pjs for Christmas too. The fun is in climbing out of bed and running straight to the tree!

Quoting Turtledoves:

Christmas morning is for pajamas, at least for DD. Even if we go to a family's house, if it's still Christmas morning, she'll still be in her new comfy pajamas. I don't believe in making them wear frilly dresses and tights on Christmas Morning! Most people think that's weird, but I'll dress them up the day before or later that day.

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